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This is my bachelor‘s thesis. I explored how Atomic Design is often misinterpreted as a design process and how it could actually be used as a design process.

• Quality assessment of new features before and during the release of beta versions of macOS, iOS, and web apps
• Direct contact for customers with technical questions about Sketch
• Creating text and multimedia content for the public FAQs
• External support via email, video call, Twitter, and Live Chat
• Internal support via Slack and video call
• Documentation of technical defects as GitHub issues
• Working closely with engineers and designers in the company to resolve issues for customers and customer groups

• Web-Designer and -Developer
• Hardware and Software acquisition
• Provided trainings to operate specialized hardware for automated warehousing

What I did
Job description:

• Developing a design system for multiple brands, based on existing designs of those brands.
• Collecting and structuring design and brand elements with the team.
• Systematically cataloging all elements based on Atomic design.
• Designing components and creating a component library (using Sketch).
• Validate and coordinate the library with design and development, as well as other stakeholders.
• Coordinated cross-team and multi-disciplinary tasks and processes to implement in product development.
• Documented a consistent design system for multiple brands across all platforms using Frontify.
• Created a set of rules for using the design system, such as "do's and don'ts" as well as use cases.

Requirements for the job:

• In-depth knowledge of product design (digital) UX design and/or UI design.
• You have know-how of design systems and know how brand communication works. You ideally have knowledge of how modern software development processes work.
• You are an open-minded and emphatic person who enjoys working with people and have very good written and spoken German and English skills.
• You bring very good technical knowledge in using Sketch and good skills in other tools like Adobe CC.
• You are proactive and work independently to learn new tasks and software tools.

• Work on the design system for internal B2B applications for fleet management
  -- Responsive (desktop and mobile)
  -- Creating responsive UI patterns in the Sketch Library (table, date picker)
  -- Maintenance and structuring
  -- Version management
  -- Design System Documentation - Component based in InVision DSM
  -- Design-Development interface - workflow optimization through workshops

• Co-lead bi-annual internal design thinking camp as part of company-wide design advocacy.

• Analysis of the onboarding process (stepper/wizard) for new and existing customers using Hotjar: Reasons for customers abandoning the process. Click path analysis via mouse/scrolling heatmaps and screen recordings
• Information architecture of user action with system response flowchart in Miro

• Social Media Consultancy
• Web-Designer and -Developer
• IT Support and trainings (one on one macOS and Windows)
• Product Photography
• Video and audio recording
• Video and audio editing

Elderly caregiver in a closed ward.

• Editor of the School Magazine
• Various internships in social, agricultural, economical, and applied mathematics (land surveying)

Grade 1